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Author: Lisa Weidenfeld

Time travel movies! After you see them, you get to spend the next half an hour picking out the paradoxes. Is it even possible to make a time travel movie without some paradoxes? Writer/director Rian J…

“Pitch Perfect” is about the competitive collegiate a cappella scene, an apparently vicious place filled with college students more interested in performing a perfect rendition of the Ace of Base clas…

I can’t say I remember many of the characters’ names in "Premium Rush." There’s Wiley, the lead (Joseph Gordon Levitt), and you can remember his name because the characters say it so often and keep ma…

“Ruby Sparks” bears a more than superficial resemblance to the 2006 movie, “Stranger Than Fiction.” Both feature previously renowned authors in the midst of a prolonged slump who suddenly find their n…

Is it even possible to write a normal review of “The Dark Knight Rises” at this point? It’s certainly difficult to see it without thinking of what happened in Aurora. I’m not one to say our decadent n…

Is “Magic Mike” the best movie about Channing Tatum as a stripper that could have been made? It’s possible. Director Steven Soderbergh somehow maintains a loose, goofy charm throughout the movie witho…

It’s no secret that women are not so great about supporting women’s sports. I include myself in that category. I’ve never seen a WNBA game. Though to be fair, I haven’t been invested in the NBA since …

"Prometheus" stands somewhere at the border between the kind of science fiction that uses a fantastical construct to ask big, important questions about humanity and the kind of sci-fi that wants to pi…

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